CURTIS D. FRYE is Principal of Technology & Society, LLC, an electronic commerce and policy analysis firm in Portland, Oregon. Earlier, he was an analyst with The MITRE Corporation and Director of Sales and Marketing for Digital Gateway Systems. A specialist in the interaction of advanced communications technologies and society, particularly the Internet and the communities that have formed around it, Mr. Frye is also a successful writer with several books, online courses, articles, and numerous book reviews on his personal bibliography.